Ryan North Quotes
You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
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You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.
